She said that when she spoke her native language to help her friends and other people it didn’t matter if she messed up because they didn’t look at her differently, but as soon as she stumbled over a word while speaking to a Spanish person in Spanish she was looked down on. As she gets older and goes through life, she sees that things are starting to change in America as far as race and nationally. So she tries to become more comfortable and wants to consider herself a Latina, but she still doesn’t feel comfortable with it. So she’s buying books, tapes, etc. so she can learn Spanish.
Granados implies that life won’t always go as you planned. Rochelle learns and accepts the fact that things didn’t go as planned and she is okay with it. Throughout the story Rochelle is planning a white wedding that broke all the Mexican traditions. “My wedding is going to be classy.” Lily tries to tell Rochelle that weddings like that don’t happen in El Paso. Rochelle was embarrassed of her culture but in the end she was just another statistic of teen pregnancy.
Although Tan knows that the way her and her mother converse is not grammatically correct, she has grown to love it. Towards the end of her essay, her diction changes as she comes to terms with this fact. Writer Amy Tan recalls her unforgiving childhood of growing up in a “broken” Asian-American household, and she saw how communication issues could impact one’s life profusely. “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan - Original I found this essay to be very
Include any revisions your instructor asked you to make. How would you feel if your mother, whom you were very close to, left you at a young age and never came back? Unfortunately, statistics say that fifty-nine percent of undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are from Mexico. In "Enrique's Journey" there were many human rights issues. The author of this novel, Sonia Nazario, clearly illustrates a real-life conflict of immigration and how it roughly affects the daily life of people trying to maintain a living within the U.S. and Mexico.
Summary and Personal Response “Se Hablo Espanol” is a personal memoir written by Guatemalan-born Tanya Barrientos, whose family, in 1963, relocated to the United States with the intent of providing the best life possible for her. She was only three years of age at the time – a time considered to be the most formative years of a child’s life. They stopped speaking Spanish immediately and insisted that she fully assimilate into the American culture. As a result, an adult Barrientos found herself struggling to identify with her native language. Early on, Barrientos recognized the intolerance for differences in her new land.
I think Ms. Kim may have experienced “culture shock” when she arrived to Queens and realized this was not a dream, but her horrible reality. Ms. Kim no longer had the safety net of a wealthy family that secured her thoughts, dreams and actions. All she had at this moment was nothing compared to how she was accustomed to living. Another part of this essay that I found interesting was the language barrier that affected Suki Kim’s mentality when she first arrived to Queens. I thought it was amazing how unfamiliar she was with cultures outside her own.
The book treats of a great aspect of life, education. The author talks about the importance of speaking English what is the most important point for communicate with others, what most of others Mexican could not do. He does not considerate himself as being a Mexican. The weakness of that book is about the trade he made from his ethnicity due to the fact he spoke English and thought he was better than the Mexican culture. He forgot and rejected his roots based on a better education he got from his parents and his prestigious school, Stanford.
In the shadow of her mother’s fame and success, Christina grew up in an unpredictable family environment. She would have to act presentable in public and especially to guests so she wouldn’t ruin her mother’s reputation and image. She became a victim of fame and fortune itself except it was not by being spoiled, but instead she was a victim of her mother’s unpredictable levels of sanity. At first it seems as if Christina's mom would end up spoiling her new child Christina, but it eventually turns into her mom trying much too hard to teach her discipline, often times going a little bit too far. Fame and fortune does not always take its toll on children through spoiling them, but Christina’s story shows that it can definitely take a toll on a family.
The author says, “We didn’t really like to wear the veil, especially since we didn’t understand why we had to” (3). It became compulsory for girls to wear a veil. A school is expected to introduce activities which would help develop the knowledge or the personality of it’s students but here in this school the girls were made to wear veil’s without any reasonable explanation. It was just an outcome of the cultural revolution that the girls were forced to wear veil’s even though it did not contribute to their education or personality development in any way. The girls, including the author, mocked the veil by playing around with it in various ways and not doing what they were supposed to do with it.
I agree with her on this. They used English that only her and her mother can understand each other. If someone else had heard her speak this English they would probably think she did not go to school or does not know how to speak fluent English, as she mentions. She also mentions that Asian Americans are always steered towards sciences and math and she is much better at those subjects than English. But, she wanted to prove herself and others wrong and majored in English her first year in college.